St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-25
DR.. NEILL'S SERMON.
Union Services at the Dayton Av-
enue Presbyterian Church.

| enue Presbyterian Church.
The Dayton Avenue Presbyterian,
the Calvary Reformed Episcopal, the
Woodland Park Baptist and the Oxford
Methodist churches united in union
| Thanksgiving service in the Dayton
| Avenue church yesterday morning.
| The sermon was delivered by Rev. E.
| ID. Neill, of Calvary church, and it was
a powerful effort, filled with good,
sound sense on such important topics as
pauperiSm. anarchy and socialism and
sO-called labor organizations. DIR. Neill
took as his text Mark xiv, Z:
For We have the poor with you always,
and whensoever We will ye may do them
good; but me We have not always.
I'm the constitution of the Hebrew
commonwealth" he said, there were
certain wise provisions which, if carried
out, would prevent the wide difference
in the social conditions of men which so
hurt a man, with temperament capa-
BILE of entertaining the proper feeling
for the welfare of his fellow men. In
all ages of humanity, Self-Seeking and
generally self-indulgent men have pro-
feSSed to be friends of the poor man, but
like Judas of old. only to betray him.
To-day we need TO walk but short
distance from the palatial residences of
the merchant princes OF orr large cities
to find alleys where shrunken forms tell
us of ceaseless labor. Incidence is a
fertile source of all discomfortS iE
human society. A faint even of this
kind degrades and pulls down the
human character. There is always
part of every community affected by in
fiuence. Improvidence and luxurious
living are other forms of degradation
and poverty.
HONEST POVERTY.
Thank God there is still honest pow
erty. It's not fashionable, | know.
Legislative enactmentS can never abol-
ish pOverty-laws may do something to
prevent the rapid increase of Migrants,
but this is all. CaiUs Gracious 100
years before the Christian era, tried to
do something to abolish poverty and
thought it would be both stateSmanlike
and benevolent. Corn was to be sold to
the people for price far under its
cost; but in spite of this the Roman
Corn law, pauperism rapidly Increased,
and when Caesar became ruler, more
than 100000 people were demanding
supplies from the state. At the close
of the Civil war sentimentaliSm
rather than craftsmanship, ruled.
The statesmen of the republic gave not
| cent to the impoverished white class
who had lost their all, and granted mill
ions to the freed black merlin short,
turned the government into vast char
tia bic institution. The blacks thought
this very nice, and began to think that
work was altogether unnecessary and
thought the government would give him
forty acres of land and COW. The fail
ure of the Freedman'S bureau was
A GLORIOUS THING,
and the black man, having nothing to
lean upon, went TO work and the me-
diaval monasteries or rookerieS discOur-
aged frugaIity. Such is the love
of ease that every one seeks to find a
way of getting along without work.
There is something radically wrong in
the organized charitable societies. A
certain sympathy ought 10 accompany
all giving. No self-respecting laborer
will ever sign his name to any anti-pov-
erty society. The Christian church and
the anti-Poverty society are i'll everlast-
ing conflict.